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To: rlmorel
I agree with your general statement here, but let's face it -- I don't think DADT was terribly effective in the first place.

I offer that little WikiLeaks freak from the U.S. Army -- I believe "his" name is PFC Manning -- as Exhibit A on that point.

23 posted on 12/23/2010 7:04:38 AM PST by Alberta's Child ("If you touch my junk, I'm gonna have you arrested.")
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To: Alberta's Child

I doubt very seriously that PFC Manning is the real source of the leaked documents on WIKILEAKS.


28 posted on 12/23/2010 7:30:36 AM PST by Texas Fossil (Government, even in its best state is but a necessary evil; in its worst state an intolerable one.)
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To: Alberta's Child

Actually, we don’t know that for sure yet. I don’t think the whole story is out.

On one level, as other posters have stated, the homosexual personality which is overly self-centered and geared towards personal gratification and impulsive action, is just one facet. This could have happened with a straight person, but...it is less likely.

DADT was effective, it did exactly what it was supposed to do. Even when I was in back in the Seventies before DADT, there was no such thing as anyone who even let on they were homosexual, even though everyone knows there were or must have been.

If two guys were caught slurping on each other on active duty, they would have been gone in a heartbeat, no questions asked. I don’t believe they would have even been kept around for Captain’s Mast. There wasn’t even an undercurrent of homosexuality.

Even the suspicion was damaging to morale, never mind anything more.


43 posted on 12/23/2010 8:51:46 PM PST by rlmorel ("If this doesn't light your fire, Men, the pilot light's out!"...Coach Ed Bolin)
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